How to get your Opening Day tickets (and more need-to-knows about Detroit Tigers schedule)

A Max Scherzer 2013 Cy Young Award bobblehead will be given to the first 15,000 fans at the June 5 Detroit Tigers game.

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The Polar Vortex will briefly and slightly ease its grip on Detroit on Saturday morning — the high is forecast at 27 degrees downtown — as Detroit Tigers fans queue up for Opening Day tickets at the Comerica Park box office.

To be one of the 1,000 fans permitted to buy Opening Day or other single-game tickets at the ballpark, fans must pick up a numerical wristband starting at 3 p.m. today at Comerica Park's Tiger Club lobby off Witherell Street.

The Tigers will randomly draw a number between 8:15-8:30 a.m. Saturday, and the fan with that wristband number will be first in the ticket-buying line.

Wristbands don't guarantee tickets. Fans must be in line by 9:30 a.m. Saturday, and anyone who arrives after that time, even with a wristband, will have to go to the end of the line.

Tickets will be sold by cash or credit card and are limited to four per fan for Opening Day. Fans must present identification for credit card sales.

Fan who don't want to risk not getting tickets after standing in the cold also can buy them at Tigers.com or by calling (866) 668-4437.

The Tigers open the season against the Kansas City Royals at 1:08 p.m. March 31.

This is the first year Tigers tickets will be dynamically priced, meaning there is a base price on Saturday that will go up or down starting March 3 based on demand. Starting single-game ticket prices this season range from $9 to $95. Each seat section is priced higher for Opening Day, ranging from $50 to $135.

The Tigers last season implemented a three-tier pricing system for the expected popularity of a game. Popular opponents such as the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees were the most expensive, and there were two less expensive tiers for other games.

Those tiers remain in place this season as starting prices for seats.

Ticket prices have no cap in how much they can increase in price, but they can never dip below the discounted rate that season ticket holders pay for a seat.

Season tickets are already on sale. Details are at tigers.com/tickets.

Monday's edition of Crain's Detroit Business will feature a story explaining the inside details of dynamic ticket pricing for pro sports teams and what Detroit's four teams (and the University of Michigan) do with their seats.

Bobbleheads, posters and other giveaways

Detroit Tigers

A Miguel Cabrera 3-time batting champion trophy will be given to the first 10,000 fans at the Friday, May 9 Detroit Tigers game.

The Tigers have scheduled 32 promotional giveaways for adults, kids or both this season at Comerica Park. Here is the schedule and the number of items to be distributed:

Promotions schedule is subject to change and buying a ticket doesn't guarantee an item.

When is Star Wars Night? (And other special event details)

Broadcast details

Fox Sports
Detroit will air 150 of the Detroit
Tigers’ 162 games this season, down from 152 last
year. That’s because the Tigers will get more
national airtime this season as they try to reach the
American League Championship Series for the fourth
consecutive season.

Five games will
air on the new Fox Sports 1
national network and three will be televised as the
“Fox Saturday Baseball Game of the Week”
(June 7 vs. Boston, June 21 at Cleveland, and Sept. 6 vs. San
Francisco). Those three games will air on local Fox affiliate
on WJBK-Ch 2.

Four games will air on
ESPN.

The gem of the Detroit Tigers' 2014 season special event lineup will be a tribute to the 1984 World Series team on June 30.

The first 20,000 fans get a commemorative 1984 replica road jersey, and members of the 1984 team will be honored in a pregame on-field ceremony.

In addition to theme nights and events there will be 10 Friday night and six Saturday night post-game fireworks shows between May 23 and Sept. 27 (weather permitting).

The Tigers also will again allow kids 14 or younger to run the bases after Sunday games, among other treats for Sunday Kids Days.